I don't know how this survey is going to work...I picked violin, because I couldn't pick more than one...but I'd say I can also play the viola...nearly as good as I play the violin (just can't read the clef fast enough...)...
Good point Nox. I think everyone should put down their primary instrument. I play piano as well, but mainly violin. Piano is a stringed instrument, is it not?
Well piano has strings, and the harpsichord you could count to plucked instruments, but the newcoming fortepiano and so on was now counted as new section "keyboard instruments" but Nox is also right, it also appears in percussion instruments... the limits are like often merging.
I counted for violin, because I thought it was strings here, my major is the piano.
Ah and Nox, viola would have been better to vote that we had more viola votes :lol:.
Violin is my first instrument, bassoon second.
I might be starting to have a look at viola, and I would LOVE to play cello!!!
I've always wanted to play cello, I love bass instruments, but I was only able to contact a violin teacher when I first started playing (without going private, which my parents couldn't afford) but I've grown to love that now.
I still remain very jealous of my form tutor, who is a music teacher and brilliant on the cello!
Same, because solo/concert music for cello far exceeds that for viola. Both are nice instruments. It could also be that the cello is less portable so if you join an orchestra a car is also useful - not as difficult to transport as a double bass but almost.
Could also be that the amount of practice the cello takes, fewer players have time for the internet!
That's hard for me to answer.. in terms of stringed instruments violin is my main instrument, and probably is for everything I play, but I also spend quite a bit of time on piano.
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